Between Radical and Realistic: Biodiversity, Transformation and Development Cooperation

Sammanfattning

Working Paper, April 2022

This working paper is one of the contributions to the forthcoming
anthology. The text builds not only on the expertise of its author,
Tilman Hertz from Stockholm Resilience Centre, but also on a roundtable
discussion with leading international experts convened by EBA.
Tilman Hertz first provides a background to one of today’s most
important global challenges – the rapid loss of biodiversity. He goes on to
discuss the role of development actors in general and donors, such as Sida,
in particular. He formulates three questions, focusing on the potential role
of development actors in supporting or fostering the transformation
needed to reach not only biodiversity objectives but the SDGs in general.
The main conclusions from the roundtable discussion delving into these
questions are presented in the second part of this working paper.
The author describes the significant body of work developed by IPBES
and other actors, and both the background section and the roundtable
summary provide a discussion on some of the more important choices
that faces Sweden as a donor. EBA hopes that this working paper will
provide helpful insights in the work to develop an overarching theory of
change on how to support the protection of biodiversity.
EBA working papers are shorter studies that investigate a question of
limited scope or that complements a regular EBA study. Working papers
are not subject to a formal decision from the expert group but instead
reviewed by the secretariat before publication. The authors are, as with
other EBA publications, responsible for the content of the report and its
conclusions.